Apparatus for making paper bags



UNrTED STATES BYRON B. TAGGART, OF WATERTOWN, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING PAPER BAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,454., dated August 15, 1365.

.To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BYRON B. TAGGART, of Watertown, in the county of J eiferson and State of New York, have. invented certain new and useful improvements in method of making paper bags or sacks intended principally to contain flour, and in apparatus .or tool or implement used in the manufacture of such bags or sacks; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view of a folding table used in the manufacture of paper bags in accordance with this invention. Figs. 2, 3,

' and 4 are similar views of the said table on a duction by the process described of a bag of a peculiar form, the fold in the bottom being such as to allow of the bag assuming an Voval form in its horizontal section, whereby the rectangular corners, where the bag is most liable to tear or break, are avoided.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I shall now proceed to describe themanner of proceeding, together with the apparatus used andthe bag which results from such mode of proceeding.

The folding-table used for the purposes of this invention consists of an upper shelf, A, supported by three or four legs, B, and of a second or lower shelf, C, which is made adjustable in relation to the upper shelf in any manner that may be deemed most convenient. In this instance it is provided with four aper tures and contiguous sockets, D, through which the four legs of the table pass. These sockets are provided with set-screws S, whereby the lower shelf may be secured in any given adbag. This folded sheet of paper, pasted to gether along the two parallel outer edges, is then placed into the slit withthe intended top resting upon the adjustable shelf, which is adjusted with reference to its distance from the upper one, so that the quantity of paper above the upper shelf be that intended to form the bottom of the bag, which, of course, may be in creased or diminished, according to the size of the fold and strength of the bottom desired to be given to the bag. The edges of the part of the bag protruding above the table are then broken down, andthe folds are made or pressed down, as shown in Fig. 2. The next folds are made by dividing according to lines parallel with the slit,the sides lying flat on the table, and by folding them up, as shown in Fig. 3, and down, as shown inv Fig. 4. The folds thus made are then pasted, and the sack or bagis completed. A i

Sacks made according to this process are i easily and compactly packed, because the bag proper is perfectly flat, and the bottom has a tendency to fold on-a middle line flat against the body ofthe sack. Thus without disfiguremeut or forming objectionable creases or new folds in the bag the same may be packed into compact packages.

The peculiarity ofthis bag is that when filled its sectional area is oval or elliptical. This is due to the diamond shape or hexagonal form of the bottom and the middle line which unites the most distant angles of the hexagon, being equal to the width of the bag when folded dat. Another peculiarity is that the angles which the body of the bag make with the bottom are y Having thus described my invention and the bag or sack made in the manner and by the means hereinbefore set forth. Y

' In testimony WhereofIhave signed my name to this specication before two subscribing witnesses. f'

BYRON B. TAGGART.

Witnesses:

WM. W. TAGGART, A. K. SAWYER. 

